Past Tense Short Form

私はおもしろくだったです。

私はかわいかったです。

私はいじわじゃなかったです。

私はやさいを食べなかったです。

2011年8月1日

Today we had a Kanji quiz which was less than stellar for me, alot less. Tomorrow is another grammar quiz and today we had unit 9 vocabulary and we learned 4 new Kanji. All the material is becoming alot to handle. The grammar we learned today was:

-Short Form, Past Affirmative-

                             Short                             compare with:

Verbs:                 よんだ                         よんで     

い-Adjectives:   かわいかった            かわいい

な-Adjectives:  しずかだった             しずかだ

Noun+です       がくせいだった　　がくせいだ

-Short Form, Past Negative- 

                            Short                     　     compare with:

Verbs:                よまなかった                   よまない

い-Adjectives:  かわいくなかった     　 かわいくない

な-Adjectives:  しずかじゃなかった      しずかじゃない

Noun+です       がくせいじゃなかった がくせいじゃない

Tomorrow is a grammar quiz and we have a rough draft of our final project due 金曜日.

2011年7月29日

Ahhhhh!!!!!! Summer daze have taken their hold and I forgot to post a reflection yesterday. And all day today. Yesterday was our skit and I have to admit I was pretty nervous about standing in front of a class speaking Japanese, but all in all it wasn’t too torturous. Kind of fun actually. Mainly because, thankfully, we were allowed to read from a script. And since I forgot to post a reflection yesterday I’ve almost forgotten what we did in class other than the skit. I’ll have to refer to my notes… Ah yes, first we did a review of vocabulary and read a letter in class that had quite a bit of Kanji. We did a listen exercise in the workbook to with a guy that has a really bad life. We also did and Kanji review for the quiz this Monday.  

2011年7月28日

Today was some more grammar but seems easy to grasp. The final is going to have a TON of grammar I expect. This unit’s vocabulary seems to be a little easier to remember for some reason. Maybe because there are a lot of nouns with Katakana and sound much like their English counterparts.

Our two new grammar points were:

Please do not (do something)…

~ないでください。

Like/Dislike - Good at/Not good at

[person]は[verb]のが｛すき・きらい・じゃうず・へた｝

Kat-san also sent everyone a link to The Kanji Handbook. It looks really helpful for learning Kanji. My favorite phrase was:

山ountain climbers without a chart 拙lumsily 出epart

2011年7月27日

Today was pretty relaxed and a welcome break in the middle of summer session III. It was fun working on the skit with バザさんとキャツトさん. Today were also a few new grammar points:

なにか - something (telling)
なにか - anything (question)
なにも  - not anything (must be used with a negative)

Since we had a break from homework and studying for a quiz too I had the chance to go see a comic book movie with a trailer at the end for The Avengers, which is to begin shooting soon in Cleveland, but this is the movie Marvel should be making:

2011年7月26日

Today we learned some more conjugation of vocababulary. Probably the best part was the practice and the in-depth sentence examples that were on the board. That really helped with learning how to structure the sentences. Converting to short form is pretty much just as confusing as converting to te-form just because it seems like there are alot of special cases, and the vocabulary is in ru/u verb forms. Japanese is a complex language but seems to make sense in some instances to me. What I mean is that some parts seem to be actually intuitive and conjugating some words and tenses just come naturally. Unfortunately, most don't. The others just take work.

Today there were two new grammar points: 
   
Quoting a person (somebody said that...)
(short form) + といってしました。

I think that...
(short form) + とおもいです。

2011年7月25日

Ahhh, I always forget how much there is to do for this this class, and it's going by in a flash and summer is melting away. Today was some new vocabulary and short form in Japanese. Something which my brain wanted to turn into te-form at certain points today.

Present Affirm:
                              Long:              Short:
verbs:                   よみます　     よむ
い-adjectives　    かわいです　 かわい
な-adjectives　    しずかです　  しずかだ
noun+です（だ)  がくせいです   がくせいだ

Present Negative:
                          Long:                               Short:
verbs:               よみません　                  よまない
い-adjectives    かわいくありません　     かわいくない
な-adjectives    しずかじゃありません　  しずじゃない
noun+です       がくせいじゃありません   がくせいじゃない